Wake Film supported by Danish Film Institute, The Kulturbro 2000 Foundation, Ministry of Research and Information Technology, Ministry of Culture & Malmö University

A large-scale multimedia project, the main element of which is an eight-hour long silent movie. The film is based on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (London 1939). The intention was, with this gigantic language-scape as a basis, to create images of the same complexity and radicalness. The film is like a wallpaper, a dream. It creates its own pictures, its own language, its own world. Sigmund Freud translated dreams into language. The director of The Wake is doing the opposite, translating Joyce’s dream info pictures.